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Page 6B East Oregonian PEANUTS COFFEE BREAK Tuesday, March 13, 2018 DEAR ABBY BY CHARLES M . SCHULZ Woman irked when co-worker mimics her distinctive style FOR BETTER OR WORSE BY LYNN JOHNSTON B.C. BY JOHNNY HART PICKLES BY BRIAN CRANE Dear Abby: I have been trying to have learned from it. She still texts get healthy for years and recently lost and looks at her phone while driving. a lot of weight. Every job I have, I It has reached the point where I refuse work with grossly obese women. At to ride with her or allow her to drive my present job, one of them keeps my child in her car. coming to work dressed like me. It I’ve asked her repeatedly to not has happened before and I am sick of use her phone while driving, but she it. You have no idea how insulting it is seems to think she’s invincible even to come to work, ready to do my job after having proof she’s not. What Jeanne and find myself in this embarrassing Phillips should I do to make her understand situation. I just started working here she’s putting herself in danger again, Advice and I need the job. not to mention those who ride with To me, this is a form of harass- her? — Concerned Daughter ment, and I don’t understand where she’s Dear Concerned: Because your mother coming from. It’s not my problem if she is didn’t learn after the accident she caused unhappy with her self-image. I like myself; by not turning off her cellphone, it’s time to I mind my own business and do my work. accept that nothing you say will change her. Also, I worked in fashion for years. If she Continue to refrain from riding with her or wants my fashion expertise, she should pay allowing your child to. And pray that if she me for it. Copying the way I dress is not a causes another collision, she doesn’t kill compliment. It’s identity theft. She is not me. herself or someone else. I do not appreciate her imitating me. Please Dear Abby: We love to open our windows help! — One Of A Kind In Illinois and enjoy the fresh air during the wintertime Dear One Of A Kind: I’ll try, but it may in Florida. One neighbor sits out back and not be the kind of help you’re asking for. Have smokes and the other one smokes on his front you never heard the saying, “Imitation is the porch, which makes it impossible to open our sincerest form of flattery”? It’s a principle windows without smoke drifting in. I realize the fashion industry is based upon. Instead of they have rights, but why can’t we enjoy our being offended and angry, why not help the home too? What would you do? — Fresh Air woman by offering to assist her in making In Florida distinctive fashion choices of her own? I’m Dear Fresh Air: I’d consult an air condi- sure she’d welcome it, and I’m also sure it tioning company and describe the problem. would lighten and brighten the atmosphere. Some restaurants that have smoking patios Dear Abby: My mom was involved in a keep the cigarette smoke from annoying serious car accident a while back that required patrons inside by installing a fan above the multiple surgeries and hospital stays. She’s entrance. The forced air blows straight down still dealing with the repercussions. and serves as a barrier not only to smoke, but The problem is that she doesn’t seem to also to flying insects. DAYS GONE BY BEETLE BAILEY GARFIELD BLONDIE BY MORT WALKER BY JIM DAVIS BY DEAN YOUNG AND STAN DRAKE 100 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 12-13, 1918 E.J. Wilbur, pioneer sawmill man and widely known resident of Umatilla county, met a harrowing death on upper McKay creek yesterday. The place where he was killed is several miles above the forks of the creek and the body was brought down to the McKay postoffice by a hack. The facts as developed are that the aged millman went out by himself to blow up stumps yesterday morning. Two men working with him on his place had been sent a half mile away to work on a fence. About 10 o’clock the men heard a blast but did not learn of the accident until 2 o’clock. Returning to the house for dinner they were alarmed at not finding their employer there and went to search for him. They found him dead with his body some 30 feet from the blasted stump. E.J. Wilbur has operated sawmills at various points in the Blue moun- tains for many years. He formerly had a mill near Meacham. Wilbur Station took its name from him. 50 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 12-13, 1968 Heppner’s brand of basketball magic, the sort that led to the Greater Oregon League championship despite highly regarded Grant Union, ran out in the first round of the 1968 A-2 tournament Monday, but not by very much. The scrappy Mustangs played Rogue River on even terms for all but the final minute before bowing to the No. 1 ranked Chieftains 66-60. Even then it took a record one-game scoring performance by Rogue River’s phenomenal center Gary Shontz to put the Chieftains on top at the end. The 6-5 Shontz hit 12 for 17 from the field and 16 for 20 from the free throw line to finish with 40 points. The previous one-game mark was 35 by Derrald Mann of Pleasant Hills’ 1965 tournament edition. 25 Years Ago From the East Oregonian March 12-13, 1993 In a male-dominated field, welder Patty Farnam has only one problem — dealing with nature’s call in the middle of nowhere in the Eastern Oregon sagebrush. “If there are woods I usually go in there, but there is nothing to use for cover out here,” Farnam said of her work near Ione on the natural gas pipeline running from Canada to south-cen- tral California. “Sometimes I have to hold it all day.” Despite such inconveniences, Farnam enjoys her non-traditional work and the challenges it offers. Farnam’s stepfather was a welder, so she grew up in the shadow of the profession. She decided to pursue welding after trying a few other jobs that didn’t suit her. THIS DAY IN HISTORY DILBERT THE WIZARD OF ID LUANN ZITS BY SCOTT ADAMS BY BRANT PARKER AND JOHNNY HART BY GREG EVANS BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN Today is the 72nd day of 2018. There are 293 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On March 13, 1928, at least 400 people died when the San Francisquito Canyon in Southern California was inundated with water after the nearly two-year-old St. Francis Dam collapsed just before midnight the evening of March 12. On this date: In 1639, New College was renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard. In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel. In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis signed a measure allowing black slaves to enlist in the Confederate States Army with the promise they would be set free. In 1901, the 23rd Pres- ident of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis at age 67. In 1925, the Tennessee General Assembly approved a bill prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. (Gov. Austin Peay signed the measure on March 21.) In 1933, banks in the U.S. began to reopen after a “holiday” declared by Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1947, the Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe musical “Brigadoon,” about a Scottish village which magically reappears once every hundred years, opened on Broadway. In 1954, the Battle of Dien Bien Phu began during the First Indochina War as Viet Minh forces attacked French troops, who were defeated nearly two months later. In 1964, bar manager Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, 28, was stabbed to death near her Queens, New York, home; the case gained notoriety over the supposed reluctance of Genovese’s neighbors to respond to her cries for help. Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Roy Haynes is 93. Country singer Jan Howard is 88. Songwriter Mike Stoller is 85. Singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka is 79. Opera singer Julia Migenes is 69. Actor William H. Macy is 68. Polit- ical commentator Charles Krauthammer is 68. Rock musician Matt McDonough is 49. Rapper-actor Common is 46. Actor Danny Masterson is 42. Singers Natalie and Nicole Albino (Nina Sky) are 34. Actor Emile Hirsch is 33. Olympic gold medal skier Mikaela Shiffrin is 23. Thought for Today: “Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.” — John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist (1806-1873). PHOEBE AND HER UNICORN BY DANA SIMPSON BIG NATE BY LINCOLN PEIRCE